Lok Sabha Elections-2024
ECI establishes 4 special polling
booths for Kashmiri Migrants in Delhi
Voters to get to and fro free
transport facility up to booths
NEW DELHI, MAY 08:
To facilitate Kashmiri Migrants, residing in Delhi, to cast their votes in
person on the polling days during Lok Sabha elections on the seats across Jammu
and Kashmir, the Election Commission of India (ECI) has established special
polling booths for the community at different locations in the capital.
These booths have
been established at Kashmir Resident Commission, 5 PR Road New Delhi, Kashmir
Kissan Ghar BR-2 Shalimar Bagh Delhi, Arwachin International Public School
Pocket F Dilshad Garden, Delhi and GGSSS Paprawat Najafgarh, Delhi.
“The Election
Commission of India, in a first, has instructed for providing free of cost to
and fro transportation facility for the Kashmiri Migrants eligible to cast
their ballot in these special booths”, reads a communication received here
today by the office of AERO/ARO, Migrants, New Delhi. The transport service
will be provided to KMs from the camps to their respective polling stations and
back to camps.
With an aim to
extend requisite support and help to the Kashmiri migrant voters, the office of
AERO/ARO, Migrants, New Delhi, is efficiently functioning during the working
hours at Pota Cabin 01 at JK House 5-Prithvi Raj Road, New Delhi. The office
has also established a help desk which has supported numerous stakeholders to
file offline/online Form-M, Form 12-C and other requisite documents.
Besides, a series
of camps and meetings have been organized to raise mass awareness at various
places to increase the percentage of Kashmiri migrant voters in the capital.
The BLOs are also visiting door to door for educating and helping the migrant
voters. These camps, organized at various locations in Delhi and NCR, received
tremendous response resulting in notable increase in enrollment of voters
through Form- M and Form 12-C, so far, as compared to last parliamentary Lok
Sabha Election.
As per the data
given by the AERO/ARO office, about 169 voters have been registered besides
receiving 65 Form M and 4 Form 12 C for the Baramulla PC, 480 voters have been
registered besides receiving 183 Form-M and 8 Form 12-C for the Srinagar PC
while 95 voters have been registered besides receiving 40 Form M for the
Anantnag PC, till date.
The Kashmiri
migrants are evincing keen interest to participate in the upcoming elections
and it is expected that there shall be a high voter turnout during these Lok
Sabha election.